On 01/22/2016 11:47 AM, Luz Violeta wrote:
Hi David ! I totally share your toughts. I was following the whole CoC discussion, and as a transgender woman found myself with a lot of sadness. Because what happened in that discussion, happens in some other projects that I liked technically and used for a long time. It's sad, because all those who participated in the discussion were people that are not exposed to the experiences we live (and by that, I mean everyone not fitting in the hegemony of that white guy in the IT industry), and by consequence they don't have sensibility/empathy to notice or understand what's out of place ... or these people are totally limited in how much of that sensibility/empathy can get. And that's the foundation on which the CoC is being written. I saw the CoC go down, down, and down in content and quality, not taking stances for nothing and falling into generalizations. I truly hope that open source communities can move forward on the social aspect (the community), so more people can feel ok/safe to come by and put hands to the work without feeling exposed to violent situations. And, about some comments/signatures I saw floating around the CoC discussion, I will just say that this is not being about weak, pitiful, etc ... sometimes, you just get tired or you just cant have your armor all day on, all week on, all month on, all year on ... all life on, and sometimes you prefer to avoid these situations, and do something else in a safer enviroment, so you have a moment when you can take the damn armor off and simply worrying about having fun. This is pretty much my personal opinion. Hugs ~ P.S → even now, I'm kinda terrified of a shitstorm in my first mail to the mailing list ... but definitely this spark of hope made me come forward and say something, dunno.
I do not see a shitstorm in the making and welcome to the list. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
